Prosecutors allege that the judge illegally helped an undocumented foreign national elude ICE agents who sought to take him into custody when he attended a hearing before the judge.
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Hundreds of international students have recently had their visas revoked, triggering legal challenges and emergency court orders as schools and students seek clarity on the sudden status terminations.
While the federal government will stop contesting the constitutionality of these laws, this doesn't necessarily end litigation over whether they can be enforced.
The new laws continue a trend of states getting more involved in immigration enforcement, which was traditionally left to the federal government.
The ruling addressed the effects of an illegal policy that DHS had authorized at ports of entry on the U.S.-Mexico border.
On November 19, 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) proposed an expansion of facial recognition at the border to include photographs of every non-citizen coming in or out of the United States, regardless of their means of travel, entry and exit points, or even age.
A ruling issued last week by the US District Court for the District of Maryland states that the federal government must face a lawsuit filed by the families of US citizen children whose parents have been denied coronavirus stimulus checks due to their status as undocumented immigrants. The court rejected…
A class action lawsuit has been filed in Illinois federal court naming defendants including President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin by a US citizen who alleges that he was unlawfully denied a stimulus payment because he is married to an immigrant. The plaintiff…
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled that the Trump Administration failed to follow procedures set forth under federal law in appointing Ken Cuccinelli to a leadership role in US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in 2019. As a result, two rule changes to the asylum…
A new lawsuit filed on behalf of 12 plaintiffs aims to protect immigrant children from "aging out" of the immigration system when they turn 21 if their parents are H-1B visa holders from India. Dependents of H-1B holders have the ability to remain in dependent H-4 status if their wait for…